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Snow Leopard Features Suggest It’s a Touchscreen OS

Written on September 01, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 8 people have commented

If you’ve got one of Axiotron’s awesome Modbooks, and you’re running Snow Leopard, you may have already stumbled across a few features that make your Mac so much easier to use. It’s unlikely Apple had Axiotron in mind when it included these features, though, so what’s the real story here?
Cult of Mac believes the features [...]

Rumor Has It: Apple Tablet Video Surfaces, Impresses, Not Likely Real

Written on August 13, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 11 people have commented

Even though I will warn you, as I was warned, that these videos are almost certainly clever fakes, the Mac addict portion of your brain will likely still experience a pleasurable thrill when you see them. I first saw these over at Cult of Mac, but they’ve been making the rounds, with TechCrunch and Gizmodo [...]

Rumor Has It: Apple Could Field $800 Tablet as Early as October

Written on July 13, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 34 people have commented

Do I have $800 to spend on yet another Apple device that bridges the (relatively small) gap between my iPhone and my 13-inch MacBook Pro? Not really. But if rumors prove true and this October does indeed see the launch of a small tablet device priced in that area coming out of Cupertino, I will [...]

Resisting the Touchscreen Blight

Written on April 10, 2009 by Charles Moore and 38 people have commented

Last weekend, New York Times’ Virginia Heffernanhit a resonant chord with me in a wonderfully crafted piece eloquently relating why she hated the iPhone experience so much she returned her iPhone to AT&T, replacing it with a BlackBerry.
The nexus of Ms. Heffernan’s iPhone discontent was mainly an issue that I can identify with — her [...]

24-inch LED Cinema Display Gets a Little More Touchy-Feely

Written on January 12, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

Leopard may not have quite the level of touchscreen integration as Windows 7 appears to be packing, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t those out there who would appreciate having one for their Mac. We can probably cry out for a tablet till the cows come home, and not be rewarded any time soon, unless [...]